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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
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